Peter Raschendorfer

For good reason the Contact Form 7 plugin is the most used contact form plugin for WordPress. The downside is that you see the same boring spinning animation on zillions of websites. The CF7 Custom Spinner plugin allows you to customize this loader animation!
<h3>Retired Plugin</h3>
Development, maintenance and support of this plugin has been retired in october 2023. You can use this plugin as long as is works for you.
There will be no more updates and I won’t answer any support questions. Thanks for your understanding.
Feel free to fork this plugin.
<h3>Usage</h3>
Customize the spinner animation in ‘CF7 Custom Spinner’ section of your WordPress Dashboard. That’s it!
<h3>Customization Options</h3>
This plugin allows you to choose from
<ul>
<li>12 animations</li>
<li>16 colors</li>
<li>3 sizes</li>
</ul>
(which gives a total of 576 possible combinations)
<h3>Requirements</h3>
The only requirement for this plugin is that you have the Contact Form 7 plugin installed and activated.
<h3>Plugin Privacy Information</h3>
<ul>
<li>This plugin does not set cookies</li>
<li>This plugin does not collect or store any data</li>
<li>This plugin does not send any data to external servers</li>
</ul>
<h3>Credits</h3>
Thanks a lot to <a href="https://ideasilo.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Takayuki Miyoshi</a> for the great Contact Form 7 plugin. Thanks a lot to <a href="http://tobiasahlin.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Tobias Ahlin</a> for creating the beautiful CSS only loading spinners.

Custom Spinner for Contact Form 7

Customize the spinning Loader Animation of Contact Form 7

WPGurus

This tiny plugin allows you to use spintax like <code>{phrase 1|phrase 2|phrase 3}</code> in your posts, pages and theme files. Just enclose the content that you want to be processed in the shortcode [wpts_spin][/wpts_spin] and a unique copy will be generated on each page load. Alternatively, you can pass the spintax string to the function <code>wpts_spin()</code> and echo the returned value.
The plugin can help you avoid duplicate content penalties. For instance if you have a sizable block of text that needs to appear throughout the website then you can write spintax for it and use the above-mentioned shortcode or template tag to generate unique copies.
Nested spintax like <code>{phrase 1|phrase 2|{sub-phrase 1|sub-phrase 2|sub-phrase 3}}</code> is also supported by the plugin.
Example 1:
Shortcode:
<pre><code>[wpts_spin]{phrase 1|phrase 2|phrase 3}[/wpts_spin]
</code></pre>
Function:
<pre><code><?php wpts_spin('{phrase 1|phrase 2|phrase 3}'); ?>
</code></pre>
Sample Output:
<ul>
<li>phrase 1</li>
<li>phrase 2</li>
<li>phrase 3</li>
</ul>
Example 2 (Nested Spintax):
Shortcode:
<pre><code>[wpts_spin]{phrase 1|phrase 2|{sub-phrase 1|sub-phrase 2|sub-phrase 3}}[/wpts_spin]
</code></pre>
Function:
<pre><code><?php wpts_spin( '{phrase 1|phrase 2|{sub-phrase 1|sub-phrase 2|sub-phrase 3}}' ); ?>
</code></pre>
Sample Output:
<ul>
<li>phrase 1</li>
<li>sub-phrase 2</li>
</ul>
Example 3 (Caching):
Shortcode:
<pre><code>[wpts_spin cache="604800"]{phrase 1|phrase 2|phrase 3}[/wpts_spin]
</code></pre>
Function:
<pre><code><?php wpts_spin( '{phrase 1|phrase 2|phrase 3}', array( 'cache' => '604800' ) ); ?>
</code></pre>
Sample Output:
Same as Example 1 but the output will be cached for a week (604800 seconds).

Text Spinner

Allows you to use spintax in your posts, pages and theme files

Custom Spinner for Contact Form 7 vs Text Spinner